I have a fresh install of Mint 13 Cinnamon. I pressed Fn-PrtSc on my laptop and I see a "blink"/"flash", but that's all. I tried pasting the contents of the cilpboard (Ctrl-V) into Gimp, but there's nothing in the clipboard.

When i was using Mint 13 MATE, I would see a dialog window after I press Fn-PrtSc, with the choice of saving the file or copying the image to the cilpboard. I was expecting a similar effect in Cinnamon.

Please help.

UPDATE: I see the screenshots are all saved in my /home/pictures/ directory. I guess that'll do for me.

On Mint 13 Cinnamon desktop, pressing <PrintScreen> will silently save the whole screen as an image file in the folder /home/your_name/pictures. You found out yourself.Pressing <Ctrl><PrintScreen> will copy the whole screen to the clipboard. You will be able to paste it into the Gimp application window e.g.

In order to learn and modify the default key combinations used by the programme gnome-screenshot, go to Menu => System Tools => System Settings => Section "Hardware" => Keyboard => Tab "Shortcuts" => Item "Screenshots".

HTH,Karl

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It doesn't seem very user friendly to secretly save the screenshot to the picture folder.

How is a user supposed to know this? And how are they supposed to know they need to press 'Ctrl' to save it to clipboard?

Any users coming from another OS will generally assume one of two things will happen when they press PrtScr

1. A message dialog will appear asking them where to save it.or2. The image will be copied to clipboard

I assumed the first. When that did not happen, I assumed the second. When that did not happen I assumed it was a bug and came on here searching.

The Gnome-Screenshot tool works great and prompts the user for where they want to save it and also gives the option to copy to clipboard - would it not make more sense to show this dialog when using the PrtScr shortcut?

You are right. Making the <PrtScr> key silently take a fullscreen screen shot and silently store it in the folder $HOME/pictures in the Cinnamon edition may not have been the smartest idea, because it makes most users - including myself - think that <PrtScr> is being ignored. (By now I know better, of course.)

Yet, there is a common place to check whether a key / key combination has been assigned a systemwide action:Menu => System Tools => System-Settings (=gnome-control-center) => Keyboard => Section "Hardware" Keyboard => Keyboard Shortcuts.

There you will find all the system wide keyboard shortcuts, not just the ones used to launch gnome-screenshot.

By the way, Cinnamon does use gnome-screenshot in order to take screenshots just like other Gnome based desktop environments as well. The Cinnamon designer has - for which ever reason - decided to configure the key combinations differently.But you are free to re-assign <PrtScr> to launch

PrintScreen wasn't doing anything at all for me until I finally figured out that I had to install gnome-screenshot. Now it is saving screenshots into my ~/Pictures folder as described above, which works adequately for me. However, I would like to configure two things: 1) Save screenshots into a different directory (e.g. ~/Pictures/screenshots), and 2) Turning off the camera flash/shutter sound effects.

<Moderator on>With this belated comment on the matter let us close this thread which started about Mint 13 Cinnamon in Oct 2012 and had already ended in Dec 2012, because at that time we were talking about Mint 13 with Cinnamon 1.4? or 1.6? Not sure. Now we are at Cinnamon 2.4.6.</Moderator off>

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